The size and shape of commerce and culture

03 April 2007

Harvard evolutionary psychologist Professor
Stephen Pinker has carried out a historical body count through the millennia to
prove we live in a progressively less violent and safer world. If you thought that
barbarism, cruelty and horror were alive and well, in his essay “A History of
Violence” Pinker argues the opposite: “something in modernity and its
cultural institutions has made us nobler."